Developer Product Briefs Tricks for Processing SQL Scripts Discover how SQL Server 2005's SQLCMD tool can enhance your scripting processes. By Josef Finsel 05/01/2006 Tricks for Processing SQL Scripts ...

Good old FTP and flat file import will do the trick reliably and never take a day off. Here are the basic steps to automate an FTP download in Windows followed by a CSV insert into MS SQL Server.

Even now, a full workstation backup seems like overkill. As I have recently discovered though, you can use a PowerShell script to back up a SQL Server Express database.